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"Oh for a book and a shady nook, Either indoors or out, with the green leaves whispering overhead, or the street cries all about. Where I may read at all my ease both of the new and old, For a jolly good book whereon to look is better to me than gold"
"Gold gives to the ugliest thing a certain charming air, For that without it were else a miserable affair."
"The ability to manage large assets well - it's like being Michael Jordan or winning the gold in the Olympics; it's what you aspire to."
"Cicero called Aristotle a river of flowing gold, and said of Plato's Dialogues, that if Jupiter were to speak, it would be in language like theirs."
"During a photo-call with fellow Olympic gold medallist Duncan Goodhew- Pity Steve Ovett didn't show up. Then we could have had the good, the bald and the ugly."
"The carbon tax is the single biggest rolled gold example of Federal Labor not listening."
"You could own coins but you couldn't have bars of gold. We were on the gold standard. I think it was Nixon who took us off the gold standard."
"The plainest print cannot be read through a gold eagle."
"The real alchemy consists in being able to turn gold back again into something else; and that's the secret that most of your friends have lost."
"Your life is worth much more than gold."
"Poetry is the alchemy which teaches us to convert ordinary materials into gold."
"I am a drop of gold he would say I am molten matter returned from the core of earth to tell you interior things-"
"In European thought in general, as contrasted with American, vigor, life and originality have a kind of easy, professional utterance. American -- on the other hand, is expressed in an eager amateurish way. A European gives a sense of scope, of survey, of consideration. An American is strained, sensational. One is artistic gold; the other is bullion."
"The accursed hunger for gold."
"O accursed hunger of gold, to what dost thou not compel human hearts!"
"Dip a slice of bread in batter. That's September: yellow, gold, soft and sticky. Fry the bread. Now you have October: chewier, drier, streaked with browns. The day in question fell somewhere in the middle of the french toast process."
"A ring of gold with the sun in it? Lies. Lies and a grief."
"Do we always grind through the present, doomed to throw a gold haze of fond retrospect over the past?"
"Is it thy will that I should wax and wane, Barter my cloth of gold for hodden grey, And at thy pleasure weave that web of pain Whose brightest threads are each a wasted day?"
"May he be cursed on earth who gives his trust to virtue, that bankrupt crone who takes our life's pure gold and gives but bad receipts for payment in the lower world. Ah, passers-by that stroll, travelers that come and go, all that I had, I placed on virtue, and lost the game!"
